. Do some research and find a city that has experienced population growth. Determine its population on January 1st of a certain year. Write an exponential function to represent the city’s population, y, based on the number of years that pass, x after a period of exponential growth. Describe the variables and numbers that you used in your equation:

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B.  Saginaw, Michigan:                                                                                                                      	
  51,413    307   0.0059
  51,043    280   0.0054
  50,763	    460   0.0090
  50,303
  99.99
0.999%



A.  Salem Oregon:  
155,094   1179     0.0076                                                      
156,273   3009    0.019
159,282   1332     0.0083
160,614
0.0116
1.16%